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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2U-lL_qdTI

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I don't know where this idea came from,

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Looking back, I think it was there all along.

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But when I learned it had a name,

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That Nietzsche took it from the Stoics, the Egyptians and the Hindus,

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That it came from the Śramaṇas and the Brahmin,

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I felt something in me change.

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I started to look for it -

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All the while protecting doubt

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And sheltering impossibility.

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This will happen again.

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We will do this all over,

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Near if not exactly 

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The way we do it now.

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Nothing really changes.

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All that is, will be the same -

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And when you wake into it,

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From the womb,

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The path you carve

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Will be laid over tracks

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That you took for yourself before.

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I will lose my arm again.

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I will fall in love again.

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I will know this,

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All of it,

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Again.

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It will never stop,

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Because eternity is not a line...

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It is a circle.

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If it's to be believed,

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I will move,

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Endure

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And bleed -

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As Prometheus before the beak,

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As Sisyphus upon the peak -

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Forever and again,

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Here now and hereafter,

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Again,

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And then forever moreover to follow.

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This life we lead

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Is not a dream;

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But it does recur.

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And Heaven and Hell, are simply the ramifications

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Of the choices we make while we're here.

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Author's Note

I'm writing this under the pretense that it's a hypothetical.

Not to be taken literally - despite predicating the piece on absolutist language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_return